In March 1991 Rodney King - a black man on parole for robbery - led police on a high-speed chase through Los Angeles.
In this frame from video provided by Darnella Frazier, then Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneels on the neck of George Floyd.It was only because 17-year-old Darnella Frazier filmed the incident on her phone that the world learnt what really happened. Floyd had, in fact, died after Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, pressed his knee into the black man’s neck for almost 10 minutes.
, pointing to enormous racial gaps in wages, employment rates, home ownership levels, incarceration rates and school test scores.Matthew Knott Thousands of National Guard troops had been called into Minneapolis and businesses across the city were boarded up in anticipation of riots following an acquittal.
Two years later black man Philando Castile died just outside Minneapolis when a police officer shot him during a traffic stop. The officer was charged with second-degree manslaughter and two counts of dangerous discharge of a firearm. After five days of deliberation, a jury acquitted the officer of all charges.This time it was different. After 10 hours of deliberations the jury returned with its verdict: Chauvin was guilty on all three charges.
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